How Google Improves Search Results
Google gives a beginner-friendly explanation of how it improves search results in a new video published to the company’s YouTube channel.
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Google gives a beginner-friendly explanation of how it improves search results in a new video published to the company’s YouTube channel.
Google is letting businesses make edits to their GMB listings while they’re being viewed in Google Maps and search results.
Google’s Martin Splitt, and Rachel Costello of Builtvisibile, discuss common questions about canonicalization in the latest episode of SEO Mythbusting.
LinkedIn is selling SlideShare to Scribd, a digital library leader for books, audiobooks, and other professional works.
Facebook users are seeing a new notification screen when sharing COVID-19 links, warning them the content may be old or inaccurate.
A decidedly small percentage of websites are able to pass a Core Web Vitals assessment within PageSpeed Insights, according to a new study.
A study commissioned by DuckDuckGo finds Google will lose mobile market share when Android’s search preference menu starts rolling out to users.
Site owners can now use Google’s Rich Results Test tool to validate their ‘article’ structured data markup.
Google is holding a virtual conference later this month for the first time in the company’s history. Registrations are open until August 19th.
YouTube published a new set of insights with information about the most popular video topics since the pandemic started.
Major updates to the Facebook Chat Plugin for business websites allow it to be used by people who aren’t logged into Facebook.
In the latest installment of Google’s Lightning Talks video series, Martin Splitt identifies the top issues site owners run into with mobile-first indexing.
Google is giving advertisers new ways to capture leads by adding lead form extensions to YouTube and Discovery campaigns.
App campaigns in Google Ads can now be optimized specifically for driving as many app installs within as short a timeframe as possible.
Instagram Reels, a new way to create and share 15-second TikTok-like videos, is officially launching in the US.
Google published a detailed explainer about how changes to search rankings are evaluated internally before being rolled out to users.
Google’s Martin Splitt cautions site owners about the challenges that come with using JavaScript content rendered by third-parties, such as blog comment sections.
Results of a recent study show nearly half of the first page of Google’s search results is made up of links to its own products.
Twitter is actively exploring the option of adding a premium subscription model that would give users access to exclusive features.
Google is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the “Cha-Cha Slide” with a unique Easter egg that literally gets the search results moving.
Google’s top stories carousel in search results may display multiple results for the same story, adding a second link for context.
Google is turning Maps into a social network of sorts by giving each user their own profile filled with photos and reviews they’ve submitted.
There are currently issues with sharing links on LinkedIn, as its sharing API is not fetching display images.
Google is extending its support for Black-owned businesses an update to Google My Business and an announcement of two new initiatives.
Google is updating Search Console with support for image license structured data, which can now be tested with the Rich Results tool.
Google is notifying site owners via Search Console of an increase in searches related to work from home jobs.
CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google testified before US Congress today during a hearing on the market dominance of each company.
There are currently a “large number of failures” associated with Bing’s new URL submissions plugin for WordPress, according to the company’s outreach team.
Google’s John Mueller speaks on when it’s acceptable to use an intrusive interstitial; something that’s ordinarily devalued in search results.
Google’s John Mueller speaks on whether it’s okay to publish charts as images, or if it’s more beneficial to use HTML.